Definition of slather
: a great quantity
—often used in plural
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When Jessica Alba first launched Honest Beauty back in 2015, there were a whopping 83 products to swipe, slather, and swatch.
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Water Street Brewery adds homemade stuffing to the meat mixture and slathers the entire thing with WSB Amber beer gravy and Wisconsin cranberry sauce.
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So slather on the sunscreen, sink your toes into the sand or soft grass, and dig in to these new books.
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The resulting slather is truly unique, worthy of the wings wearing it.
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Curry on Fire’s cauliflower is a nuclear orange and crimson hue, the result of slather of turmeric and chili paste.
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So slather on the sunblock and consider keeping your window shade down.
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Then add a generous slather of barbecue sauce and three half-pound smoked hamburger patties.
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The Grilled Cheez Guy’s Nacho Guyz Serves 6 For his playful take on nachos, Michael Davidson, a.k.a. the Grilled Cheez Guy, slathers Acme sweet baguettes with a creamy and cheesy spread that gets plenty of heat from pureed jalapeños and Sriracha.
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Origin and Etymology of slather
origin unknown
Examples of slather in a Sentence
We ate lobster slathered with butter.
Recent Examples of slather from the Web
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Chunks of it swim boldly in the gleaming, red cocktail sauce that's slathered all over four jumbo shrimp.
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Massive men walk around the lawn turned into a wrestling ring to the tune of traditional music, their torsos slathered in olive oil, for an annual festival that blends the traditions of ancient Greece and more modern times.
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Choose gua bao and Chinese broccoli slathered in oyster sauce.
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Ignore all those old wives’ tales about slathering nail polish, petroleum jelly, or other substances onto the tick.
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Plaster was slathered over cloth on a Lego superstructure, then brought to the museum in sections and replastered and decorated in place.
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Made with cornmeal and studded with fresh corn kernels, these not-too-sweet tender muffins are just as good alongside barbecue as they are slathered with butter at the breakfast table.
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Note: For judging, chipotle-mayo sauce that is spread on the buns was slathered on top of the burger instead.
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The idea of rooting for anybody but America is like slathering hollandaise sauce on a hot dog.
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First Known Use of slather
1846
SLATHER Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of slather for English Language Learners
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: to cover (something) with a thick layer of a liquid, cream, etc.
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